Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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